Changing Security Dynamics in East Asia [electronic resource] : A Post-US Regional Order in the Making? /
Atanassova-Cornelis, Elena.author.
van der Putten, Frans-Paul.author.
Putten, F. van der.editor.
This original and detailed collection explores how regional actors deal with uncertainties that are inherent to the current geopolitical situation in East Asia. The contributors collectively demonstrate that strategic uncertainty has become a major factor in the shaping of the security order in East Asia.
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Cover; Changing Security Dynamics in East Asia; Contents; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Editors; Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction Why Strategic Uncertainty?; Context and objectives of the volume; Defining the East Asian region; Organisation of the volume; References; Part I: Evolving Regional Security Order in East Asia: Key Perspectives; 1: Theoretical Approaches to Asia's Changing Security Order; Introduction; Realist approaches to security order; Hegemony, hierarchy and Asia's security order; Liberal and eclectic approaches
Reflections on the Asian security order debateReferences; 2: East Asian Security, Policy Debates and American Leadership; Introduction and overview; Why the American leadership is resilient; Lessons from history; US interests - economic, values, strategic - focused on Northeast Asia; US reluctance to lead: Major costs and risks of leadership; Repeated challenges to US leadership in East Asia; Faulty forecasts of US decline in East Asia; Current challenges in light of the past; Assessing China's rise and resilient American leadership; China's Advances and Limitations (Morrison 2012, 10-25
Sutter 2013, 315-321)Standards of leadership: The US in the East Asia and the Asia-Pacific Region (Beckley 2011/12;  Sutter 2013, 321-326); Outlook; Notes; References; 3: China's Approach to the US Role in East Asia: The Dynamics of Volatile Competition; China in the lead: Past picture of the game; Picture reversed: A new round in the game and a new overall trend; 'Rollback' in Southeast Asia and fresh assertiveness in multilateralism; 'Chanced' consolidation of the rest; 'Triumphalism' and decision-making in China's Asia policy: Complexities in behaviour and dynamics
Conclusion: China's new leadership and foreign policy prospectsNotes; References; Part II: East Asian Responses to Strategic Uncertainty; 4: "Keeping the United States In": Japan and Regional Order in East Asia; Introduction; Keeping the United States in Asia: Underpinning logic; Tokyo's post-Cold War activism in the 1990s; Alliance management; Regional institution-building; Further push for US sustained engagement in Asia; Alliance management: High up, down, and up; Regional institution-building and regional order: More of the same?; Conclusion; Notes; References
5: The US Security Role in South Korea: Issues that Test South Korean Confidence in the US CommitmentThe South Korean political context; The US military presence; The plan to terminate the Combined Forces Command; Dealing with North Korean provocations; Dealing with North Korea's nuclear and missile advances; US defense budget restraints and Obama's non-interventionist attitude; The roles of China and Japan in South Korean thinking; Conclusions; Notes; References; 6: Political Resolve and Strategic Uncertainty in Taiwan-US Relations; Current Taiwan-US relations; Taiwan's resolve; US resolve
Reducing mutual strategic uncertainty through political resolve
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This original and detailed collection explores how regional actors deal with uncertainties that are inherent to the current geopolitical situation in East Asia. The contributors collectively demonstrate that strategic uncertainty has become a major factor in the shaping of the security order in East Asia.
Ethnology—Asia.
Politics and war.
International relations.
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Asian Culture.
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International Relations.
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